2.5V Lithium "AA" sized batteries: Where to find?

[Joe R.]

At 08:40 PM 3/5/05 -0800, you wrote:
>James Fogg wrote:
>
> > It might not make a perfect solution, but you could
> > take 2 nicad cells (1.25V each) of similar diameter
> > and a shorter length (N size?) and place them in series
> > in shrink tubing to make a replacement cell.
>
>Yeah - I thought about that. Don't want to go there if I don't have to,
though.
>
>(I did fail to mention in my original post that it requires 2 of these 
>little beasts, thus making a 5V supply necessary.)

 Then why don't you squeeze in a LDO 5 regulator and install two standard 3
volt Lithium batteries?

   Joe